Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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THE NORMAL OFFERING 17 FLORA M. STUART. Grade L Bridgewater Normal School, 1889. Courses in Summer School. Teacher in schools of Fairhaven and Newton. Re- turned to Bridgewater as teacher, 1890. CLARA R. BENNETT. Grade L B. Graduated from East Stronsburg, Pa., Normal, 1896, Bridge- water Normal, 1901. Taught in schools of Gardner and Beverly. In the Bridgewater Model School since 1901. ANNE M. WELLS. Kz'na'ergan'en. Kindergarten Training Class in connection with Mrs. Quincy Shaw's School, Boston, 1889. Post-graduate work with Miss Fisher in Boston. Taught in schools of Brookline and Hart- ford. At Bridgewater since 1893. FRANCES P. KEYES, Asszkiam' Kivzdergaften. Mrs. Aldrich's Training Class, Springfield, 1888. Taught in private kindergarten in Springfield, and public kindergarten in Hartford. At Bridgewater since 1895. p if

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16 rue NORMAL OFFERING MARTHA M. BURNELL. Grade VIII Gorham Normal School, Me., 1887. Special course at Bridge- water Normal. Course at Harvard Summer School. Taught in schools of'Concord, N. H., and Chelsea. At Bridgewater, since 1895. SARAH V. PRICE. Grade VIL Special course at Bridgewater Normal, 1899. Taught in schools of Warehouse Point, Conn., Montclair, N. J. Principal of Grammar School, East Hartford, Conn. Returned to Bridge- water, 1902. , NELLIE M. BENNETT. Grade VL Bridgewater Normal School, 1888. Courses at Summer School. Taught in schools of Middleborough. Returned to Bridgewater, 1896. JENNIE BENNETT. Grade If Bridgewater Normal School, 1886. Courses at Summer Schools. Teacher in schools of Middleborough. Teacher at Bridgewater since 1898. MARY L. WALLACE. Grade IV Bridgewater Normal School, 1893. Teacher in schools of Rockport and Malden. At Brlidgewaternsince 1895. SARAH W. TURNER. Grade ffl Bridgewater Normal School, 1878. Teacher in schools of Bridgewater, Dighton, Somerville. Returned to Bridgewater as teacher in Model School in 1895. ANNIE LAWRIE SAWYER. Grade ff Teacher since Sept. 1902 in 2nd grade, Model School. A graduate from the four years' course S. F. H. S., Warner, N. H. and two years Special Course, Bridgewater, Mass. Taught five years in Warner schools and two years in Wilmington, Del., previous to coming to Bridgewater.

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Grabuation Day, 1902. HE classes of IQO2 were favored with as beautiful a 1 day for graduation as they could have wished. The ,y ,, school hall was filled by a large and interested au- Vi'l dience. After devotional exercises and the render- H H ing of a song Union and Liberty by the school, the principal address was given by Mr. George H. Martin, for many years first assistant in this school, now one of the Super- visors of Schools in Boston. 1 Mr. Martin took as his subject The Higher Functions of a Course of Study. He showed how the course now followed in the public schools had grown from the three R's of Colonial days, subject by subject, each addition being made by legislation in response to a public demand. Three purposes of a course of studies are to impart knowledge, to discipline, involving a grad- ual growth in exactness, thoroughness and self-control, and to develop tastes and desires , love of nature, love of art, and love of good books should be encouraged. Beyond all these pur- poses should be the love of service, no man lives to himself alone, the deeds of great men have been examples for the gen- erations which follow. Institutions come and go but man re- mains. Mr. Cushing of the four-year class presented to the school the picture which the graduating classes had chosen as their gift , Mr. Boyden replied in acceptance. Mr. Boyden spoke to the graduates upon The Teacher's Opportunities, as these opportunities spring out of the relations which the teacher holds to his pupils. His personal habits, his manner of speech, attract or repel, are a help or a hindrance to the formation of good habits on their part, his thinking and his tastes have influence in forming them, his moral nature im- presses itself upon them, his spirit is imbibed by them, the greatest opportunity comes from the unconscious influence of his inner life. The teacher has greater opportunity than any- one else, except the parent, to shape the destiny of individuals, society, the nation and the race.